Space-sims

[RingoW]

I'm a fan of i-war and i-war 2. These games have the most realistic flight physics and technique in space. A real challenge for manoeuvering skills. Additional in i-war, all planets, stars and moons are exactly in its size and position to each other and do change their postions while the game does progress. The hitch is, the games are ending after playing the story. There is no endless game after, but in i-war 2 you can explore the whole universe between the story missions. Unfortunatly you cannot trade or interact when docked on stations. You can dock only and nothing happens. I guess they were all made for MP, but the MP was not well used.
In some missions the difficult level is very high and leads easily to frustration, but me never felt better, when completing the one great battle in i-war 2. The stories are good and you have the addicting factor of upgrading the ship step by step.

For action i like X-Wing Alliance. A verry good background story behind the missions and for the age of 10 years, the graphic is still good. I'm angry that LA never made a part 2, based on the X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole and Aaron Alston.

Never played Freespace, so i cannot give any statement.

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AoM